I try to download a file from https site and every time the file is saved to my machine it is only 1KB. The file is supposed to be 1MB. I am using Webclient. string strFile = @"c:\myfile.txt"; WebClient wc = new WebClient(); wc.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("userid", "pw"); wc.DownloadFile("https://www.mysite.come/myfil...
Is there a way I can programmatically determine the status of a download in Chrome or Mozilla Firefox? I would like to know if the download was aborted or completed successfully. For writing the code I'd be using either Perl, PHP or Python. Please help. Thank You. ...
My PHP script serves files using readfile() and manually added HTTP headers. Files are about ~1 MB big, so no partial-reading is necessary. What is the best way to replace this file with a updated one, but ensure already started downloads won't be broken? I'd like pending downloads to be finished with fetched old file version. Platform...
I tried using a free script that I found on the Internet but it is giving me problems with Windows users (even though they are using IE 8, so it's not an option for me to ask them to upgrade their browsers.) Here's the requirements: I have a bunch of Microsoft Word and pdf files that need to be protected so that only authorized users c...
Hi All, I am using Kohana 3. Up to now my downloadable files were residing in my application document root. So far using $this->request->send_file($download_file); it was working perfectly right. But now my downloadable files are on another server can be accessed using http say http:://www.test.com/download/test1.doc. So Kohana's $thi...
public void getWebContent() throws Exception { Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.println("Input URL:"); fileURL = in.nextLine(); if (!fileURL.startsWith("http://")) { System.out.println("URL not valid! Please make sure 'http://' prefixes"); System.out.println("the web address!"); } else {...
Hi, I'm trying to download remote file using C# (ASP.NET). The problem is when I browse to the file download URL - it downloads perfectly. When I try the WebClient.DownloadData(url) I get "no data to show" response. If I browse using the built-in VS2010 browser I still get this "error" message. The file link is: http://www.tase.co.il/...
Hi, I'm working on a Java-project where I need to download files via FTPS and wonder how/if there is a way to signal that the file has been downloaded at a later time, i.e. not as the actual download has completed? I guess there need to be some setting in the FTPS-protocol and some message that I need to send to inform of the completed ...
I'm writing a web application that, among other things, allows users to upload files to my server. In order to prevent name clashes and to organize the files, I rename them once they are put on my server. By keeping track of the original file name I can communicate with the file's owner without them ever knowing I changed the file name o...
What javascript could I use to open a url without leaving the current page and get an open/save file dialog to appear? ...
I was wondering if there was any way to automatically make an image, or any link save to the disk instead of open in the window. wondering if there was any element i'm not using such as: <a href="image.jpg" target="_hdd" />..</a> of course this is pseudo-code in case anyone thought I was serious. ...
Please tell me is it possile to know when a program is trying to download a file ( like in Internet Download Manager ). I want to catch that event (hook it), get the download url, and then destroy the event. Thanks in advance.. @Jerry Coffin:Sr, I forgot to tell you that this feature of IDM is not active by default. It is only turned on...
I have a asp.net download page which send a file to client but I want to deny robots download this file because the file is large and as I can see from the records a bot downloads this file about 20 times. This is slowing down the server and causes bandwidth consumption. I coded this page to count downloads and detect .net framework of ...
I have two files at the same location but the big one, when is about to finish download, gives an error (both in IE and Firefox). I use the following code: public static void DownloadZipFile (string filename, bool notifyMe) { HttpContext context = HttpContext.Current; HttpServerUtility server = context.Server; bool ok = fa...
Currently, this code works fine in a regular browser window: if (readerObj.Read()) { filename = readerObj["TRANATTACHMENTNAME"].ToString(); fileBytes = (byte[])readerObj["TRANATTACHMENT"]; Response.Clear(); Response.ContentType="application/octet-stream"; Response.AddHeader("Content-Dispo...
I am currently working on a program which translates english texts to french with an audio playback of the translated text. I am getting the translated texts as well as the audio over the net. My problem is that, when I want to play the audio file over and over again, I have to connect to the internet and load the the audio file everytim...
Hi all, I'm using php to download files, rather than the file itself opening in a new window. It seems to work ok for smaller files, but does not work for large files (I need this to work on very large files). Here's the code I have to download the file: function downloadFile($file) { if (file_exists($file)) { /...
I need to implement a feature where a user can paste one or more YouTube links, a PHP script then downloads all of them to the server, displays progress bar for each download and then inserts relevant information about them to database. How should I go about implementing this... Is this achievable with just file_get_contents()? Or perha...
Hi I am unable to download an audio file from a streaming server. The audio is downloading but only 388 bytes is showing.Can you help to resolve the problem. Thanks in advance. My code is as follows: string strExt, audiofile, mpg; strExt = rdoformats.SelectedValue.ToString(); audiofile = Session["audio_name"].ToString(); ...
Hi I'm trying to intercept some kind of files while using iPad's Safari browser. As you probably know, Safari can't download files, so it would be useful Safari to send my app those files links. As I've read in the iPhone/iPad developer documentation, you can add an URL Custom Scheme to handle some special protocols (like youtube: or t...